e.e. cummings and his poetry

Biography information

• born October 14, 1864
• died September 3, 1962
• Poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright
• wrote over 150 poems

Poetry style

• uses parenthesis
• capitalizes randomly
• no punctuation parenthesis
• free verse
• changes parts of speech
• uses concrete forms and playful language

Other information

• also a painter
• used typography to "paint a picture" with some of his poems.
• won over 10 rewards for his work

Historical events

• WWl (served in)
• after WWll poets found Emersonian ides in cummings poetry
• imprisonment
• religion
• love
• alienated from culture and fellow poets
• study of visual arts in New York and Paris

Famous poems

• i carry your heart with me
• a pretty a day
• if you like my poems let them
• snow
• anyone lived in a pretty how town
• "kitty" sixteen, 5'11, white, prostitute